 good morning good people of the world another vlog is here that means another day is here hope you're having a good one mine's just beginning i got the lumber off my trailer that was on that i didn't want it anymore weighing me down so i left it here in minnesota the nice people in wadena or is it wadena i still don't know how to say it minnesota now we're headed down to Shakopee minnesota which is part of mini apples we're gonna pick up some shingles and we're gonna bring those home we hurryed up now we gotta wait that part's not so nice that that can work there that's nice i specifically parked here so i could look at it while i waited it's beautiful air ride front suspension that's uh an upgrade i'm doing to this truck eventually too it's a little further down the list but that is uh definitely on the list i'm also taking my side fairings off to make my sleeper look like that i want to do a little bit of a frame extension i have to be careful because up in canada we can't have an overall unit length of more than 75 feet or whatever that is in meters sometimes i speak in feet sometimes i speak in meters i don't think we can have a wheelbase more than 7.2 meters which is what 280 inches i think i want to say fast the goggles one second here let's what is 7.2 meters in feet 7.2 meters is equal to 23 feet 7.465 inches okay what is 7.2 meters in inches 7.2 meters is 283.465 inches so 283 inch wheelbase max on the truck from the center of the front axle to the center of the rear axle i believe that's how that works i got to do more research yet before i get this done i don't want a wheelbase that long because i'll be over length overall i pull 53 foot uh open deck trailers right now my overall unit length is about 73 and a half no 73 feet or 72 and a half i have about two feet up to the 75 foot mark so i'm gonna measure it all out obviously before i commission the work i want to add 24 inches onto my frame two feet and then that'll give it more of a look like this it won't be quite as long as this i don't think but it'll be a little bit longer i can hear all my european followers right now typing vigorously and frantically why would you do that trucker josh well because it looks cool it's also a smoother ride the longer your wheelbase the smoother the ride so that's that's a big reason to but anyways uh all that aside i'm sitting here waiting my appointment was for 3 p.m my original appointment this morning was at 10 a.m but with my delivery out in wadena taking a little longer than i wanted it to i couldn't make it for the 10 a.m appointment so we called and we rescheduled we rescheduled it for three o'clock which was very unfortunate because that's pretty late in the day i wanted to be home tonight yet but i figured whatever i get here three o'clock i'll be loaded maybe out of here by four or four thirty huh no there's like ten other guys here that were hoping for the same thing and they all got here before me this is a pretty big place i think they're loading one two three guys four guys oh five five trucks at a time at least there might be more around the corner that i can see so they're loading five trucks at a time so technically it should be soon it shouldn't take too long so once i get loaded it's very easy to tie it down and then we're just gonna book it back it's gonna be tight to be honest it's gonna be tight to get back tonight as long as i can get to that border over the canadian border i get a few extra hours added on canadian hours of service and i can get to our yard and then i can sleep there and i have to deliver this load into winnipeg first thing tomorrow morning go back to our yard get rid of my trailer and bring this truck in to get serviced the place where i get my truck serviced at is pbx in blumenort they have excellent service there their shop is excellent i've been very happy going there and once i find a shop that treats me really well and that does good work i stick to them like glue they can't get rid of me and they they haven't screwed up once so they've actually caught a few things too that i didn't even know needed to be looked at because i look over my truck every day they look over it as well when they do my service they go over the entire truck and see if there's anything else that needs to be done it's in their best interest because they also want to make money off anything that might need to be done on top of the service obviously but they're not going to do any work without me giving the permission for it right so they're going to go over my truck see if there's anything that needs to be looked at soon make a little list for me and then i when i get the list i can look at it myself and be like yeah we can wait till next time for this we should do this you know that way there's more eyes on my truck than just mine the more the better because i mean i could miss things you know my heated mirrors weren't working for for an example last year it was summertime i didn't know they weren't working i don't use them in the summertime i don't use them but i use the mirrors i don't use the heated part of them they noticed that my heated mirrors weren't working so i got them to fix it before i would even need it because the only way i would have found out is once they iced up in wintertime and then they didn't heat up and defog so i could use them right and then i'd be without mirrors until i get them fixed that's not good so they they found that for me i appreciated that and they they earned my business i also like to support local as much as i can and support the uh the businesses in my area as much as i can not every business in my area has earned my business but uh the guys that service my truck sure did they uh they've gone above and beyond for me every time and they're very friendly oh are they is he going to pull me oh oh oh oh that was disappointing the forklift driver came i think he thought that i was the truck he was looking for came right up to my nose uh looked at my truck for a while looked at his paperwork looked at his truck and he drove away shucks got my hopes up but anyways hopefully we'll get loaded up here quick and we'll be on the road we're gonna be making a beeline i want her to be home tonight like in bed with my wife and waking up tomorrow with her and having breakfast with her in the morning oh hey buddy mics here check this out there he is i'm not the only one all right i'm gonna focus on uh paying attention here hopefully i'll get loaded soon and we'll chat once i'm out of here and the race is on i am loaded up and booking it back i've got just enough hours to get back to the border as long as i don't mess around as long as people don't mess around with me before i left the shipper i took a look on google maps and it looks like there's an accident over on i-494 on the west side of minneapolis so i'm digging this road what is this 169 from shackepea through minneapolis up to the 94 it goes around the accident is it 169 is that what i'm on here i don't usually take this road but it's a freeway as well my point is that i saw that there was a delay over on the freeway so we're going through here to save time hopefully avoid all accidents definitely not going to get in one ourselves this is such a big city oh no brake lights no no this is what i was trying to avoid okay maybe this was a bad idea i still stick to my my theory i think it would have been longer going the other way it's just rush hour right now okay we're okay we're okay don't panic don't panic i'm not panicking you're panicking stop panicking we don't have too very long to spare at all like i don't even think i got time to stop and fuel google you lied to me you said there was no traffic on this road that's why i took this route why would you lie to me that is not very nice well either way we're gonna get out of the city here get on to the freeway and hopefully have no other delays because if i have too much more of a delay than this i'm not gonna make it like i'll still get my delivery done tomorrow okay we're stopping we're stopping we're stopping okay why are we stopping it's the harmonica effect not the harmonica the accordion effect harmonica man if it's this bad on this highway imagine how bad it is over there this is kind of a bummer but don't worry charger josh has got this we'll still get back we'll make it we can do this we're just gonna stay focused and i already ate supper so i don't need to stop to eat i've got water right here all i need is for everyone to get out of my way why are you stopping again why are you stopping this traffic accordion yeah we're on north 169 here that's that's what it is okay look we're moving better up there okay that's it i think we got through it what is everybody doing on the road blowing me down do any of you live in this area did i make a poor choice taking 169 i came from shack apiece that's on the south west corner of minneapolis and you could take the 494 up the west side but you could also take the 169 they're both freeways but during rush hour did i make a mistake here because if i did i'm not gonna do this again this is gonna take me up to uh interstate 94 on the north side of the city and then we're gonna shoot out of the city out of the northwest side up towards canada i like this let's keep this up don't do it don't do it i know what you're gonna do i know what you're gonna do good good you can tell when the way some people pass you did you ever happen to you you can tell just the way they're passing you that they're gonna cut you off he was thinking about it he was thinking about it they sort of give themselves away because they sort of pass you a little aggressively sometimes they like pop out from behind you really quickly into the next lane and if not they'll pass you really quickly and then they'll come right to the front of your bumper and hesitate for a second or two and you know they're thinking about it they're thinking about it and a lot of times they follow through and they do it so i'm sitting at a gross weight of 77 900 pounds so it's in everybody's best interest to stay out of my way and get off the road truckers often needs to go home and he's real fat right now my plan is to get right up to winnipeg tonight deliver this first thing at the crackadon and then bring old blue for the service she deserves you change your oil gonna change your filters we're gonna give her to kind of pamper her a bit give her the first class treatment this is pembina north dakota the border is right there just down the road one mile up i'm waiting for my border clearance there's a little bit of a mix up somebody uh didn't send in all the paperwork they were supposed to uh from our shipper we got picked up uh or we picked up the send it to the broker from there right usually we do that uh but in this case uh they send the paperwork away and they forgot to send one very important piece of paper which is the customs paper they sent the bol to the broker and just left it at that and then i got close to the border here and i still wasn't clear so what's going on so i call up the broker and i'm like yeah we don't have all the paperwork and we emailed back already to who had sent it saying that we need one more piece and they haven't responded so i had to get a hold of them there call their night staff and request that that missing paper get sent into the broker which they did which was nice i wish it would have been sent in in the first place but i guess it's not a perfect world but now that paperwork just got through to the border or to the broker which was cleared just before i got to the the border now but now i gotta wait for customs to accept that i'll have to do a video one day explaining how that all works but the broker clears the load for us that's just how it works sends it to customs and then customs has to accept the shipment and then i can go across so now i'm waiting for customs just down the road here to accept the shipment and pretty much just press a button and say yep come on down track your josh come on home that's how i imagine it in my head anyways and uh it's been an hour and a half since it's been sent to customs cleared already so i might be sitting here until morning now which might mess up my next trip maybe not if everything works out perfect everything it'll be fine but looks like i'm going to be hanging out here for a little bit but maybe till morning but at least we got everything uh worked out i'm just waiting here hopefully uh you know at the latest first thing in the morning i'll get the notification that says hey you're good to cross come on back trekker josh just seems like whenever i'm in a like i'm always in a rush but whenever i'm really like trying to make the most of my time and uh you know i'm trying to make the most of these next two months because i'm gonna have some time off in spring when our baby's born whenever i try to run hard there's always hurdles to jump over roadblocks to navigate around detours and i'm talking figuratively here it's just it seems like everything just doesn't want to work smoothly you know on this last trip my my tire went flat and then i had to replace two of my drives and then that was a whole debacle because i didn't really want the tires that i got but then they sort of grew on me and i think i'm gonna keep them now but now i've got to go buy another used tire that has the same tread wear as my old tires so i can put that on with my old tires so i can run them down a little further because they got another year that i can run them on so i want to run those down and then i only have to i'll keep these new ones that i bought now and then next year next fall i'll only have to buy six right and then i'll have a new set so there's that debacle that that's was unexpected and a delay and because of that delay it delayed me on my delivery with that lumber this morning in minnesota i was i could have delivered that the day before but since i had those flat tires i had to deliver them the next morning which delayed me getting to this reload which i was supposed to load this morning but because i was delayed unloading because i was delayed from the tires that also delayed this shipment which brings me to where i am right now late at night sitting here at pembina waiting to get my paperwork cleared all because you know i had a flat tire so it's interesting how one single event sort of like you know uh what's that the mandela effect no it's not the effect i'm looking for the butterfly effect one of those effects you know one little thing happens you have a flat tire one morning and your whole rest of your week like it's just a domino snowball effect it just affects all your next loads so i'm hoping that we can break this chain and and stop this av the snowball from turning into an avalanche if i can get to the yard tomorrow morning i'll have enough time to get a reset before i leave on my next trip which is already booked in and if this delays me too much further it's going to delay that load too which means i might lose that load because that one has to be on time but if i can get back to the yard tomorrow morning with enough time to get a reset before i have to leave on the next load at a good time where it'll give me enough time to get to my customer on time this is making sense to you i'm tired right now i know i'm trying to make sense we might stop this from becoming an avalanche if i can just get back and sitting here waiting for this to clear but uh so far i think i should just head back there and take a nap i'm just worried because i have some hours left on my clock if i get cleared now i can book it across the border and i'll have extra time right on canadian hours of service and then i can make it further i'd like to go now but uh i'm worried that if i go back there and take a nap close my eyes that i'm not going to open them until morning and then you know there's no hope to stop this snowball domino effect it's going to affect my next load then but not meaning to sound like i'm complaining i'm just venting a little bit here and also trying to give you the good uh give you the perspective of what the lifestyle is actually like some people want to get into trucking they want to know what the lifestyle is like it's not a good day every day it's not fun every day there's a lot of delays there's a lot of headaches but through all of that i still love what i do i don't want to do anything else doesn't mean every day is going to be a perfectly awesome rainbow sunshiny day this is one of those days and this has been one of those weeks where everything just keeps getting because of one thing because of one flat tire it's sort of messed my whole week up but we'll get back on our feet we'll get our head screwed on straight again tomorrow's another day and next week is another week and it'll get better so thanks for watching today everybody thank you for 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